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Debian: CVE-2016-9932: xen -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2016-9932: xen -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/26/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/10/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

CMPXCHG8B emulation in Xen 3.3.x through 4.7.x on x86 systems allows local HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host stack memory via a "supposedly-ignored" operand size prefix.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-xen

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